Membership Meetings

Meetings are held the 3rd Monday of the month. Please try to attend & offer your voice & ideas. This is your club! Meet your fellow enthusiasts.

Next meetings: 10/21, 11/18, 12/16, 1/20 @ 7:30pm

Membership

Membership applications can be printed from the BVCS web site https://bostonvalleycs.com. Collin Snyder, our membership chairman, may be reached at bvcsmembership@gmail.com.

Message from David Rood

Greetings,

A few of points need to be addressed. We are late as far as getting our dues invoices out for those that rely on the postage system. We should have these out shortly. Obviously, this is not your fault and is not to be construed as we don’t want you as a member or we will be hitting you with late fees. We have been having issues with e mails as well. We are trying to get the wheels on the bus however in this transition period things have fallen. We appreciate all that made it to the meeting to pay their dues. I believe we have the Email under control so we should be sending invoices out that way. Fortunately, a fair amount of you made it to last month’s meeting to pay and we are grateful for that. Your help in paying your dues quickly is appreciated.

We have been working with the DEC as far as work that we are planning to do at our property. We neighbor the Erie County Forestry property and that is deemed as wetlands. There are certain procedures and laws that need to be followed to do work at the site. The permit that we filled out is a long-term plan at property maintenance and changes that we hope to do. Which will include:

• Leveling the outdoor pistol range and increasing the berm behind it to make it a safer area to shoot.
• Improving drainage at the rifle range and increasing the size of the berm behind as well.
• Some clearing in the wooded area to the right of trap field one to provide an area for a 3rd archery trail

We don’t see any issues to getting these through the permitting process. Any work without going through this process is not a good idea. Our next meeting in October we will be voting on the approval of submitting the permit. Not to do the work, just submitting the paperwork. We will have the permit valid for 6 years.

I would like to thank John Greene, Sharon and Marc Kerr for representing the BVCS at the LEAF event in the Lions shelter. They represented us well and events like this help to take away the stigma associated with guns in today’s society. Thanks as well to the Young Guns for their display. (See below for pictures)

Respectfully,
Dave Rood
President
BVCS

What's Happening @ Your Club?

Town of Boston Local Environmental Awareness Fair (LEAF)

BVCS participated in the Town of Boston Conservation Advisory Council's Local Environmental Awareness Fair (LEAF) on Saturday, September 14 - generating quite a bit of interest in Young Guns, trap and joining the club.

Membership applications and BVCS flyers were handed out by Sharon Kerr, Marc Kerr, Dave Rood and John Green, who all manned the BVCS table during the 4-hour event.

Upcoming Events

2025 Calendars

2025 Lottery Calendars are now available!

Please see the attached calendar here.

365 Chances to Win for Only $20.

Open Pistol Shooting

Tuesday nights; doors open @ 7pm. Members’ range fee is $5 and nonmembers’ fee is $10 per night. All are welcome but we encourage frequent non-members to become members and support the club. Please be aware that non-members must fill out a one-time waiver. Forms are on hand at the range.

Fall Pistol League

Dear pistol shooters,

I am planning on starting the fall league on September 26th, 2024 with the first relay beginning at 6pm, a second starting at 7pm and a third relay starting at 8pm. Tuesday will be open shooting only with Thursday reserved for league shooting.

Each week two national matches per relay will be shot for score at the 25 yard line. You can shoot one gun (22 CAL.) or two guns (22 CAL. and C.F.) for a score each week.

Come out, have fun and shoot the league. It will be great to see you again.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at 337-3555 or e-mail cwfjr45@gmail.com.

CLIFF

Fall Schedule - 10 weeks

Thursday September 26th
Thursday October 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st
Thursday November 7th, 14th, 21st
Thursday December 5th

No shooting on November 28th

Thursday December 12th Make-up

Trap

The BVCS Fall League will end on October 17th & an awards party will be held on October 20th for the 47 paid shooters & a guest. This will end the "official" trap season at BVCS with a spring league scheduled to begin in late March of 2025. Exact date to be determined.

BVCS will once again enter into the Hamburg Rod & Gun Club's winter trap league. Anyone wishing to participate see us before our trap year ends. As the trap season comes near to a close, a large thanks to the many volunteers that make our leagues the well-oiled & smooth running operations that they are. Also, thank you to the board for their support.

Hope to see you all next season! Trap person: Ernie

Young Guns

For information on Young Guns contact Howard Hoelscher at 649-3432.

Website

Please check it out as it has the newsletter, additional postings and other information. https://bostonvalleycs.com

Newsletter

The next Newsletter will be out in early October; deadline for information will be December 30th, 2024. Please email information you would like to have published, or to add/edit/remove your email address, to Ryan Rosiek at ryan.rosiek@gmail.com. A copy of the current newsletter will be posted at the club.

Elected Officials

Hon. Charles Schumer, U.S. Senate, 716-846-4111

Hon. Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senate, 716-854-9725

Hon. Chris Jacobs, U.S. Congress, 716-634-2324

Hon. Kathy Hochul, Governor, 518-474-8390

Hon. Letitia James, Attorney General, 716-853-8400

Hon. Thomas DiNapoli, Comptroller, 518-474-4044

Hon. Patrick Gallivan, NY Senate, 716-656-8544

Hon. Timothy Kennedy, NY Senate, 716-826-2683

Hon. David DiPietro, NY Assembly, 585-786-0190

Hon. Patrick Burke, NY Assembly, 716-608-6099

Hon. Mark Poloncarz, County Executive, 716-858-8500